I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.”
“It is the broken heart that makes us human in the end.”
“It is the brushwork of the right value and color which should produce the drawing.”
“It is the Buddhist belief that all things, experiences and people are inherently empty. That is a simple way of saying that all physical and nonphysical things have another side.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“It is the Buddhist belief that at every moment the universe is not only dying but being reborn.”
“IT is the building block of the business capability when business -IT gaps are shrinking, and it would be the roadblock if the gaps are enlarging.”
Source: Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency
“It is the bungled crime that brings remorse.”
Source: Love Among the Chickens
“It is the burning lava of the soul that has a furnace within--a very volcano of grief and sorrow-it is that burning lava of prayer that finds its way to God. No prayer ever reaches God's heart which does not come from our hearts.”
Source: The Spurgeon Series 1859 & 1860: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language
“It is the busiest man who has time to spare.”
“It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.”
“It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus ensure secrecy; upright and just, and thus maintain order.”
Source: The Art of War
“It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled. If serene he is not vexed; if inscrutable, unfathomable; if upright, not improper; if self-controlled, not confused.
He should be capable of keeping his officers and men in ignorance of his plans. His troops may join him in rejoicing at the accomplishment, but they cannot join him in laying the plans. He prohibits superstitious practices and so rids the army of doubts. Then until the moment of death there can be no troubles. He changes his methods and alters his plans so that people have no knowledge of what he is doing. Courses of action previously followed and old plans previously executed must be altered.
He alters his campsites and marches by devious routes, and thus makes it impossible for others to anticipate his purpose. To assemble the army and throw it into a desperate position is the business of the general. He leads the army deep into hostile territory and there releases the trigger. He burns his boats and smashes his cooking pots; he urges the army on as if driving a flock of sheep, now in one direction, now in another, and none knows where he is going. He fixes a date for rendezvous and after the troops have met, cuts off their return route just as if he were removing a ladder from beneath them.”
Source: The Art of War
“It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled.”
Source: The Art of War
“It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.”
“It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.”
“It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying.”
Source: Napoleon's Military Maxims
“It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is in accord with proper principles.”
Source: Economic philosophy
“It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.”
“It is the business of little minds to shrink.”
Source: Remembrance Rock
“It is the business of man to become acquainted with the material universe in all of its manifestations, so far as may be possible, in order to provide a foundation of knowledge on which the reasoning mind of man may increasingly build.”
Source: Rational Theology
“It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.”
Source: Literary Essays of Ezra Pound
“It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth”
Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“It is the business of the future to be dangerous.”
Source: Science and the Modern World
“It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.”
Source: Science and the Modern World
“It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.”
“It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong. And whoever attempts it, even with the best right, but without being OBLIGED to do so, proves that he is probably not only strong, but also daring beyond measure. He enters into a labyrinth, he multiplies a thousandfold the dangers which life in itself already brings with it; not the least of which is that no one can see how and where he loses his way, becomes isolated, and is torn piecemeal by some minotaur of conscience. Supposing such a one comes to grief, it is so far from the comprehension of men that they neither feel it, nor sympathize with it. And he cannot any longer go back! He cannot even go back again to the sympathy of men!”
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
“It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.”
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
“It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape.”
“It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape. Anyone who takes no delight in the firm outline of an object, or in its essential character, has no artistic sense. He cannot even be nourished by Art. Like Ephraim, he feeds upon the East wind, which has no boundaries.”
“IT is the business’s competitive differentiator to customer acquisition and retention.”
Source: Digital It: 100 Q&as
“It is the calm and silent waters that drown you.”
“It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.”
Source: Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation
“It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible form of charity.”
Source: This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen
“It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.”
Source: Leaders: the strategies for taking charge
“It is the capacity to feel consuming grief and pain and despair that also allows me to embrace love and joy and beauty with my whole heart. I must let it all in.”
Source: Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
“It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.”
Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...
“It is the care we bestow on apparently trifling, unatractive and very troublesome minutiae which determines the result.”
Source: The Art of Scientific Investigation
“It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.”
“It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle.”
“It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed expressive activity. The regulation here does not authorize any judgment about the content of any speeches. ... A park is a limited space, and to allow unregulated access to all comers could easily reduce rather than enlarge the park's utility as a forum for speech. Just imagine two rallies held at the same time in the same park area using public-address systems that drowned out each other's speakers.”
“it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime”
Source: Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
“It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.”
“It is the certainty that you are about to recover, that brings results, not the hope.”
“It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.”
Source: Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life
“It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.”
“It is the character of lived experience I want to explore, not the nature of man.”
“It is the character of the road you travel gives you wisdom not the length of the road!”
“It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.”
“It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.”
“It is the characteristic of life’s curve that while hopes soar with its ascent, dreams nosedive in its descent.”